1st December, 1989
Andros Island, Greece
Cacciatore family beach house
6:00am
Valerian had just regained consciousness after being unconscious for more than forty eight hours and even at that his father was not giving him the chance to rest properly. The ceremony to make the recruits for the year official members of the Guild was to be conducted today and Val felt he needed more rest before the occasion which was planned to be a gala. He hated the idea of having to wear a suit and tie but he had no choice now because it had been announced to all the hunters globally as a dinner and gala-style night for the recruits who The Director of the Guild said publicly had been wonderful this year. He thought about it for hours on end the previous night and had come to the certain and shocking re
